Improvement in animal-traps



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE,

DANIEL COLE, OF ORWELL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IM PROVEM ENT IN ANIMAL-TRAPS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,480, dated August 2S, 1866.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL GoLE, of Orwell, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Traps; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 an end view.

A represents a wooden box7 made in the form shown, and provided with circular openings n on each side, which can be covered by the met-al plates o. Longitudinally within or near the center of said box is a treadle, c,- which is suspended by a pivotnear the end of the box, and a longitudinal rod, cl, underneath. Thetreadlecis splitaboutone-halfof its length and pivoted at b, where it is held slightly above the main portion by a crooked spring, s. This spring is a port-ion of a small spiral spring (see n) which is attached to one extremity of the rod d. It will be perceived that rod d is connected to the treadle by means ot' small keepers, while the forward end rests upon a shoulder, t, formed on the inner side of the door e, when said door is down.

\ y represents a windlass secured to the upper portion of the forward end ofthe box, and over which passes a cord, z, at each end. These cords are attached to the top of the door and end of the treadle, so that when one side of cords draws up the door the other ends will necessarily carry that end of the treadle down.

g represents four ormore forked met-al plates, which are secured in an oblique manner in the forward end ofthe box A, and swing upon a horizontal wire which attaches them to the box.

a is a chamber, wherein the bait is kept and secured by a slotted metal plate, R.

fj' represent two or more boxes, which set one within the other, one open `at one end, caged at the front end, as seen at and connected to the mouth of the box A.

The operation of this device is as followsz.

The animal passes in at the opening B upon the end of treadle c, when the treadle is prevented from going down by the rod d and shoulder t until it (the animal) passes the point b. The weight upon this point forces the spring down and lo the rear, when the rod is also carried backward oli' of the shoulder t, and the treadle slowlydrops without noise. It will be seen that immediately after the treadle goes down the door e goes up and closes the entrance B; so the only route cf passage for the animal is through the gates g and into the boxes ff. This trap is set by means of a button, m, underneath the treadle, so that said treadle is prevented from lowering when the button is in a vertical position.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent, is

The treadle c, arranged within the box A, with the rod d, springs s and n, door e, windlass y, and cords z z, by which means the animal is lowered into the under chamber of box A, closing the door through which it entered and imprisoning itself, after passing through the gates g into the supplementary chambers, when arranged in the manner herein specified.

TIn witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my name.

DANIEL COLE.

In presence ofh G. M. ALEXANDER, J. M. MAsoN. 

